archiveApril 25, 2019

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Thursday approved the sum of N977.7 million for the N-Creative and N-Tech trainings to empower 3,500 beneficiaries in Northern and Southern Nigeria, respectively. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udo Udoma, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the FEC...

The National Pension Commission (PenCom), Nation Board for Technical Education (NBTE), and other stakeholders on Thursday in Abuja commissioned Nigeria’s first private pension tertiary institution. The Abuja School of Pension and Retirement Planning (ASP), a pensions monotechnic, specialized exclusively, in matters relating to Pension, Retirement Planning and related disciplines, has...

The Senate has invited the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, for a briefing on the security situation in the country. The IGP was invited following the debate of the motion, “senseless killing of a Briton and the abduction of three others in a Holiday Resort in Kaduna State...

The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm, alleging threats to the life of its candidate in the 2018 Osun governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke. At a media briefing in Abuja Thursday, spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, accused certain “desperate elements” within the All...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has kicked against the approval of life pension for the state lawmakers by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dominated State House of Assembly. The state parliament was said to have approved monthly pensions to speakers, deputy speakers and other members of assembly....

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N52 billion for an e-border solution to monitor the country’s borders. The approval was granted Thursday during the FEC meeting, presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the council chamber of State House presidential villa, Abuja. The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau,...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday reiterated his government’s resolve to rescue the abducted school girls in Chibok, Borno State. Speaking during a working visit in the state, the president said it was “unfortunate” that some of the Chibok girls, kidnapped since 2014, are still being held in captivity. “We are...

  The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) on Thursday said late former Taraba Governor, Danbaba Suntai, was not certified to operate the Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft which crashed on October 25, 2012. The bureau said the aircraft, with registration number 5N-BMJ, which crashed at Kwanan-Waya Village, Yola South in Adamawa State,...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the National Executive Council are to deliberate on the indiscriminate tree felling across the country with a view to taking a decision that will be binding on the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, made...

President Muhammadu Buhari will not dissolve his cabinet until five days to the end of the administration, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed Lai Mohammed has said. According to him, the president is scheduled to hold a valedictory session with members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), on May...